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Check which ingredients to use to make cider or perry that qualifies for Cider Duty rates. If you use other ingredients, you must pay Wine Duty rates instead.
Find out about Alcoholic Ingredients Relief, which is the repayment of excise duty charged on spirits, beer, wine, other fermented products and cider.
Claim exemption from registration if you make, or expect to make, less than 7,000 litres of cider or perry to sell in a rolling 12-month period.
Find out when you can remove cider without paying Excise Duty and how to do it.
Find out about applying for the Spirit Drinks Verification Scheme, how to submit brand information, fees and making sure your production process is compliant.
This measure deals with a new high strength cider and perry band for Alcohol Duty.
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Find out the effects of the law and regulations covering the production, storage and accounting for duty on cider and perry.
Find out about temporary changes to the destruction of spoilt beer, cider, wine or made-wine if you're a brewer, cider producer, wine maker or publican.
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